OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS
4th EDITION
TRAIL GUIDE
OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS
4th EDITION
TRAIL GUIDE
ROBERT L. WOOD
Updated by William E. Hoke
and Volunteers from the
Peninsula Wilderness Club
In memoriam Robert L. Wood
Our most sincere thanks to Bill Hoke, Doug Savage, and the Peninsula Wilderness Club for their tireless efforts in making this fourth edition possible. Bob would have been honored.
—Tom and Jessica Tonne
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Trail updates for this 4th edition were researched, compiled, and provided by William E. Hoke, Doug Savage, and volunteers from the Peninsula Wilderness Club.
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First edition 1984. Second edition 1991. Third edition 2000. Fourth edition 2020.
Copyeditor: Erin Moore
Design and layout: McKenzie Long
Cartographer: Pease Press Cartography
All photographs by the authors and volunteers with the Peninsula Wilderness Club. Special thanks to Don Paulson for photos on pages 21, 36, 52, 61, 99, 112, 150, 219, 257, 277, 301, 318, and 329.
Cover photograph: Looking toward the Graywolf Range from Blue Mountain (Don Paulson)
Frontispiece: Taking in the vast Olympic backcountry from Blue Mountain (Don Paulson)
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My parents and I relocated to the Pacific Northwest from my native Missouri in September [1946]. We lived with my aunt and her son (my cousin) for about a month while my folks looked for a place to live. We had come in response to an advertisement from a Kitsap County realtor, and so we wound up near Island Lake, on a rural route out of Poulsbo. We had lived there about a week, and had more or less forgotten that the realtor told us the view of the mountains from our new place was good. During that week it was cloudy and rained quite a bit; but after we had lived there that week, we woke one morning to blue skies and sunshine—and there, visible from our front yard, stood the Olympics in all their splendor, covered with snow left by the first autumn storm. That did it.
—Robert L. Wood, in a letter to William Hoke, 1995
Olympic Mountains Haiku
morning above the Enchanted Valley
side hilling O’Neill Pass to Anderson Pass
wisps of fog and plinks of rain
—William Hoke, 2016
CONTENTS
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